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Guardsmen Undergo Rugged
Invigorating Training Period
(Edilor'i note: The follow
ing article gires a rookie's
eye riew of the recent Nation
al Guard encampment. Its
author, who is relatively new
to the agariei of military dis
cipline, would prefer, for rea
sons obvious to every former
private, to remain anony
mous.) By PRIVATE 'JOHN DOE'
It first became apparent that
the National Guard companies
from Medford, A and Headquar
ters companies, were involved in
a "Military situation'' during the
night of departure for their two
week summer encampment at
Ft. Lewis last June 15.
The train was scheduled to
leave at 12:01 a.m. Saturday. But
before it left Guardsmen were
dismissed to complete goodbyes
to anxious mothers and sweet
hearts. Despite the brevity of
the summer camp, the mothers
and sweathearts clung to the
boys as if it was real. Many of
the Guardsmen were embarrass
ed and felt it made everything
seem exaggerated.
Cold Nights
Saturday night at camp was
Jpent getting situated in one of
the nine tents allotted to head
quarters company. They were
.erected in rows of three, three
tents in a row, about 10 men to
a tent. At night cold winds came
off the nearby sound and chased
everyone to their bunks early,
and made it uncomfortable to
rise in the morning. Oiten at
night machine gun fire and ar
tillery explosions could be heard
miles away being fired by the
regulars. Everyone wondered
whether it was real ammo or just
blanks.
The mornings were highlight
ed by the booming and tireless
voice of M. Sgt. Darold Garman
platoon sergeant of the commu
nications section. His "OK! Now
fall out of those sacks you men!
Chopl Chop!'' could be heard all
over the area. This happened
every morning for two weeks at
about 5 a.m. It is a well estab
lished rumor in Headquarters
company that after every sum
mer camp Sergeant Garman is
bombarded by phone calls
about 3 a.m., each with a slight
ly adolescent voice screeching,
'Time to fall out! Chop! Chop!"
Out at 5:45 a.m.
About 5:45 a.m. each day
Headquarters company would
fall out for the first formation.
Then First Sgt. Bob Messer
would dismiss the ' platoons to
"police the area." Non-coms like
Sergeant Bateman and Corporal
Drew were always careful to al
low no goldbricking. Chow was
ready by 6 a.m. and the work
day began anytime between 7
and 8 a.m., lasting until 4:30 p.m.
Monday was devoted to a kind
of orientation program, but the
Guardsmen were not told that
until a day before the company
left for home. Strangely, it was
not until a day before the end
of camp that anything about the
two-week program was explain
ed. Lt. Col. Donald H. Burke,
commander of the frist battalion,
then revealed that the first week
had been devoted to individual
soldiering and squad tactics.
Classes Held
During the first week classes
were held for the individual sec
tions, and several Guardsmen at
tended communications and pro
jectionist schools. The pioneer
and ammunitions section worked
mostly alone and practiced mak
ing and detonating TNT charges.
The comma section established
communications in the area and
the intelligence section listened
to lectures on map reading and
then adjourned to the field to fol
low compass courses over un
familiar and rugged terrain.
As far as the "top brass' were
concerned, the Governor's Day
parade on Saturday highlighted
the summer camp training pe
riod. It gave them a chance to
review the troops. But for the
men in the ranks it was differ
ent. For what seemed like hours,
thousands of Guardsmen (over
8.000 were at Ft. Lewis) stood
rigid waiting for the man at the
loudspeaker, who was incoherent
anyway, to complete his address
to the grandstand. When the
marching finally began it was
over in 10 minutes.
Squad Work
Colonel Burke explained that
the second week was planned for
the purpose of putting squads to
work with heavy weapons on the
platoon level in tactical prob
lems. It as the bivouac that most
concerned the men. Early Tues
day morning the Guardsmen
strung up their packs, filled their
canteens with water; checked
out their weapons arjd waited
for trucks. The trucks were late.
The gear was heavy and the mid
morning sun beating down made
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, the men sweat and wish they
were still in their bunks, or any
where else. The trucks came at
last. The men were loaded on,
about 30 to a truck. There were
as many trucks as it takes to
carry 500 men, all of the 1st bat
talion. Everybody had to stand
up and there was barely room
to move.
14 Miles
The trucks carried them about
14 miles, winding down gutted
roads, where low hanging
branches on nearby trees would
swoop down and clear the truck
of field hats on men who were
too lazy to duck. The trucks
stopped in a wooded area with
tall trees and foliage that made
the tactical combat situation
seem like a likely place for
camping practice. Small pup
tents soon were being busily
erected, jeeps skidded over the
muddy road and occasional out
burst of military profanity were
heard that would scare many
novelists.
It was hot, and the sun came
bursting through the tall firs in
uncompromising rajs, but there
was no time to appreciate it. At
noon the camp was completed
and everybody grabbed his mess
Foresters Remind
Residents of Fire
Season Regulations
No Smoking While Travel-
ing" and "Forest Fire Tool" re-1
quirements became effective July j
i
areas in Oregon and Washing
ton, and remain in effect until
October 31 unless terminated
earlier. Regional Forester J.
Herbert Stone reminded resi
dents today.
The ban on smoking applies to
anyone traveling inside the na
tional forests except when on
paved or surfaced highways. The
camping tools needed consist of
an axe with a handle at least 26
inches long and a head weighing
two or more pounds, a shovel
with a blade not less than eight
inches wide and a handle 36
inches or longer, and a water
container of one or more gal
lons capacity. The tool require
ment applies to campers or pic
nickers using forested areas out
side of the regular improved for
est camps, if traveling by auto
mobile or with pack horses.
Many People Expected
According to Stone, the lim
ited camping and picnicking fa
cilities are expected to be filled
to overflowing over the Fourth
of July holiday. "We welcome
these forest recreationists and
hope that they will enjoy a safe
and happy visit to the national
forests."
In the national forest protec
tive areas in Oregon and Wash
ington, campfire permits are
needed only if building a camp
fire within the old Yacolt Burn
on the Gifford Pinchot National
forest. Elsewhere they are not
required. However, forest offi
cials point out that state law and
federal regulations prohibit the
building of fires in unsafe places
or failing to extinguish them.
"To build a safe fire is to build
it small in a spot away from
stumps, logs, roots or other de
bris, and cleared to mineral soil,"
Stone said. "The fire should be
completely extinguished with
water and stirring the coals
while soaking them." He added
that water should not be used in
masonry stoves.
Total Number of Fires
The total number of fires for
the first five months in 1956 in
the national forest protective
areas of the Pacific Northwest
region was 96 as compared with
41 at the same time last year.
This was due to the early season
fires set by lightning storms. The
first five months of 1956 brought
only 16 man-caused fires as
against 37 for the same period
last year. Moisture content of
forest fuels was greatly reduced
during the dry weather of April
and May. Since this moisture
content has never been fully re
placed, the reduced number of
man-caused fires is very grati
fying," Stone said.
Foresters give much credit for
reduction in forest fires to wide
spread forest fire prevention
campaigns, increased public co
operation, and awareness of the
value of forests and the danger
and losses when the forest burns.
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by Syria, the Mideast News
agency reported from Damascus
today. j
gear and was served a surpris-
ingly adequate lunch.
Into Field
The next day the troops were
in the field. One platoon had
buried about 50 live TNT
charges, and hypothetical ag
gressors and defense positions
were established for tactical
I combat purposes.
In the evening the troops
hitched on their packs, slung
arms and started along the dusty
and rocky road that led to the
main camp. Colonel Burke and
Capt. S. P. Fagone, commanding
officer of headquarters company,
led the march. About two hours,
or six miles, later, trucks picked
up the weary men and carried
them the rest of the distance
This completed the military
program of the encampment.
Thursday was devoted to rec
reation and Thursday evening
two Medford boys from A com
pany, Adrian Van Horn and
Luther Fisher, battled for the
heavyweight championship of
the 41st Division, the Oregon and
Washington National Guard.
Van Horn won. Another Medford
boy, Bobby Lyons of headquar
ters company, won the feather
weight championship.
Company A of Medford won
the 41st Division Softball crown.
Excellent Grades
Colonel Burke said that the
battalion had received 266 ex
cellent grades from Army in
spectors who were covering the
area. The battalion received
most-of the excellents on good
housekeeping, he said. Colonel
Burke added that there were
still areas needing improvement,
which include recognition of offi-
cers insignia, quarters needing
be shined, poor display of
clothes, bunks not being tight
enough and the chain of com
mand not being memorized. Col
onel Burke concluded that the
1st battalion had the smallest
number of Guardsmen report for
sick call.
Many of the new Guardsmen,
the privates, came in contact
with a new set of words at camp.
They were, "Standard Operat
ing Procedure," more commonly
expressed as "S.O.P"'. It is this
which determines that some day
boots would be placed at the
foot of the bed or the head of
the bed, that boot laces would al
ways be tied and tucked in so
they wouldn't show, that bunks
would either be an inch from
the tent wall or a foot, that some
day field jackets could either be
worn or not worn, that all
clothes on the tent clothes rack
would be placed in a certain
order, that buttons on those
clothes . would always be but
toned, and that articles that hung
from a soldier's cartridge belt
would always hang from a cer
tain location for everybody.
LVs Simple
Sgt. Ray Bowler of the intel
ligence section explained it: "It's
really very simple. You have a
job to do. Do it. Don't ask ques
tions." Although the Guardsmen
sometimes find the discipline of
the S.O.P. unpleasant, most rec
ognize its meaninfulness and
necessity. Capt. Tom Engles, in
a letter addressed to the entire
company last week, explained
the purpose of discipline when he
said, "The Army demands the
subordination of the will of
every man in it for the good of
the company to which he is at
tached." After a hectic Friday morning
attending to details pereparing
for the trip home, the Medford
Guardsmen left Ft. Lewis Fri
day about 8 p.m. The train final
ly stopped in Medford about
1:15 p.m., Saturday. This time
there was band music to go along
with the anxious faces of wait
ing mothers and sweethearts,
which again made the sojourn
to Ft. Lewis seem like a far-off
experience.
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Roy Douglas Reagan, no operators
license, S6.
APPLICATIONS FOR MARRIAGE
LICENSE
Richard Newman Wallace. Route 2,
Box 390. Central Point, and Miss Mar
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Eagle Point.
Raymond Allen Head, Trail, and
Miss Verna Marie Bobbins, Prospect.
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Dee Hill of San Francisco
will fit that title if she is still
hanging onto that rocket
when it takes off. That fancy
Gantner bathing suit she is
wearing is titled "Safari."
Man Suffers Minor
Injuries in Accident
Donald House. Fern Valley
rd., Medford, suffered only min
or injuries Sunday afternoon
when a tractor he was driving
over an irrigation ditch bridge
near his home went out of con
trol and overturned on him.
Members of the family report
ed the tractor went through a
barbed wire fence before over
turning. House was pinned be
tween the tractor and the fence
until a wrecker could arrive to
free him. The accident occurred
at about 4:37 p.m.
He was taken by Medford Am
bulance service to Community
hospital, where he is reported
in satisfactory condition. House
is suffering from minor cuts and
bruises, but no broken bones,
and was expected to be released
from the hospital shortly.
Need Seen To Break Up
Hold by 'McKay Clique'
Salem U.R) Monroe Sweet-
land, Democratic nominee for
secretary of state, told a group
of Marion and Polk county
Democrats here recently that
a major issue of the 1956 I
Oregon campaign is the urgent j
need to break the stranglehold '
on the McKay clique on Ore
gon's government." I
Sweetland said the ''Republi-
cans have offered the people a ;
continuation of the same McKay
clique control in their 1956
ticket. It is headed by the re
actionary leader himself," Sweet-
land said, "and offers a pallid
carbon copy for governor, and
youthful duplicate for secretary
of state."
Washington (U.R) The House
has passed and sent to the Sen- 1
ate a bill authorizing transfer
r no, ' . . , i t - I
oi ioo acres oi ieaerai iana in
Clackamas county. Ore., to that
state for use as a National Guard
target range.
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Study of People Gives
Clue as to Ailment of
By DELOS SMITH
United Press Science Editor
ftew York (U.R' How a doc
tor can get an idea of what's
wrong with people without look
ing down their throats or push
ing at their stomachs, is de
scribed by a scientist who has
studied people as well as science.
When a husband makes a doc
tor's appointment for his wife.
the doctor is justified in sus
pecting she is "a nervous and
inefficient type of person." The
reason is that husbands aren't
"supposed" to do such things.
But if the wife makes the ap
pointment for her husband,
nothing can be made of it
wives are "supposed" to give
such services. If the husband ac
companies the wife to the doc
tor's office that's okay only if
he looks unhappy about it.
Abnormal Makeup
But the husband who insists
upon being present while the
doctor is looking the wife over,
"has a very abnormal makeup,
and the wife may have a func
tional disease with good rea
son." If the wife accompanies
the husband to the doctor, it's
probably quite normal.
"However, the marital combi
nation of a meek, mousy little
man and a robust, rigid wife
who answers all the questions
before the poor fellow can reply,
prognostically, is considered to
be a bad combination, indeed."
The speaker was Dr. Leonard
L. Lovshin of the Cleveland
Clinic Foundation, lecturing a
medical audience. He said that
"almost anyone can develop a
fairly gooci neurosis all by him
self, but in order to develop a
really good one, the help of the
spouse is invaluable."
For instance:
"A hovering, worried, over
solicitous husband is one of the
greatest assets a neurotic wom
an can have from her stand
point, that is." However, from
the standpoint of the physician
who wants to get at her ailments
and make her well, this husband
is "a grave liability."
"When, by whatever means, a
woman receives the attention '
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Harvey Firm Files
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The Dalles (U.R) The Har
vey Machine Co., Inc., of Tor
rance, Calif., filed a $44,000,000
mortgage here yesterday, the
largest chattel mortgage ever
filed here and one of the largest
ever filed in the state of Oregon.
The mortgage is in connec-
nection with the Harvey com
pany's proposed construction of
a $65,000,000 aluminum reduc
tion plan at The Dalles. Con
struction on the long-planned
plant is scheduled to get under
way around the first of next
month, according to an agree
ment reached between the Har
vey company and the Bonne
ville Power administration.
Three banking concerns, the
Bank of America Commercial
Trust and Savings, Inc., the
Chase-Manhattan bank of New
York and the National City bank
of New York, figured in the
promissory note.
Construction will take an esti
mated 20 months, spokesmen
said. '
Klamath Mother, Son
Killed in Accident
Portola, Ore. (U.R) A one
car accident about 30 miles north
of Reno, Nev., Sunday, took the
life of a mother and her son
from Klamath Falls, Ore.
Dead were Mrs. Parlee Mc
Williams, 65 and her 40-year-old
son, Virgil D. Lazarus.,
A third occupant of the car
and son of the fatally injured
woman, 38-year-old Kelley Lee
Lazarus, also was injured in the
crash but hospital attendants de
scribed his condition as not ser
ious. Police report that the accident
occurred when the car hit a soft
shoulder and overturned.
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sons and daughters" when she
goes to the doctor's.
If a young, married woman is
accompanied by her mother to
the doctor's, it means nothing
unless the mother answers all
the questions before the young
woman can speak for herself.
From that the doctor "learns
much about the stresses imposed
on the young patient."
Dr. Lovshin was lecturing
doctors on how to tell a "func
tional disease" from an "organic
disease." About the latter, there
usually can be no doubt some
thing is wrong with an organ
and it's plain to see. A "func
tional disease" can arise from
the emotions and often does. But
it can seem to have an organic
basis and fool even doctors.
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MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE
Sweetland Names Two
On Campaign Committee
Milwaukee, Ore. (U.R)
Mrs. Olga Freeman of Eugene
and Alton John Bassett of Port
land have been appointed as co
chairmen of the Sweetland for
Secretary of State committee.
State Senator Monroe Sweetland
said yesterday.
Mrs. Freeman is treasurer of
Lane county, having succeeded
to that office in 1953. Bassett is
a Portland attorney, a graduate
of the University of Oregon Law
school.
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